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In the ancient Chinese town of Fenjgie, which is in the process of being reconstructed as part of China's Three Gorges dam-building project, coal miner Han arrives in search of a wife who left him 16 years earlier, while nurse Shen is searching for her engineer husband, who she now fears has found another woman. Blurring the barrier between drama and documentary, director Jia Zhanke (Platform, Unknown Pleasures) paints a picture of modern China in which communism and capitalism are working in negative disharmony. Featuring a strong performance by Zhao Tao as Shen and some moments of unexpected surrealism, Still Life is a quietly compelling meditation on a country in a state of change. |
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Still Life |
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| director |
| Jia Zhanke |
| starring |
| Zhao Tao |
| Sanming Han |
| Zhubin Li |
| Hong Wei Wang |
| Haiyu Xiang |
| Lin Zhou |
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